deCypher said:

Words are very powerful creatures indeed; and I'd argue you can move mountains with the correct application of them (although this would most likely involve convincing hundreds of other people to join your cause rather than any overt magical act).

McKenna talks a lot about language in the sort of way that you're describing:

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
--Terence Mckenna

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unretarded said:

Stupefying Language

Naturally stupid societies can maintain their stupidity by
careful tailoring of language systems.  Subversion of
comprehensibility is a basic element of artificial stupidity; a stupid
society takes care to keep whatever intelligent information it has
about its own behavior or about the environment in which it dwells,
wrapped carefully in language that is esoteric, strident,
poly-syllabic, poorly organized or otherwise off-putting.

Medical information is withheld from patients by teaching
physicians to scribble in Latin.  Legal information is hidden from
people by putting it in the smallest possible print and the dumbest
possible jargon.  Political issues are displaced by shibboleths,
slogans and patriotism wrapped in yellow ribbons.  Market information
is wrapped around the neurotic compulsions of people for sex, status,
power and love.

Any effort to make scholarly language lively, enjoyable,
angry, engaging or down-right fun is discouraged by stupid scholars,
stupid teachers or stupid authors since wit and antic joy is hostile
to stupor.  Artificial Rationality Numbers are the natural language of
stupidity since they have neither wit nor wisdom. Artificially
rational societies force its scientists to encode all of the more
interesting and relevant data into numbering systems.  The scientist
who can package the most data in the smallest, most obscure package is
the scientist who is given the highest awards.  Nobel prizes are given
for two pages of equations on economics, astrophysics or
genetics. Artificially stupid societies treat poetry, song, and
graffiti as if they weren't packed full of knowledge and human
understanding.  Such wise and wonderful wit are left bereft of prize
or pride in synthetically stupid societies.

This may not seem stupid but one should remember that social
life is an immensely complex and interconnected whole.  Quantification
is a process by which information is systematically discarded as the
incalculable richness, variability and strangeness of social life are
converted into words and words into numbers.  Then the numbers
themselves are condensed and delimited in such a way that, by the time
they are retrieved, almost all of the information has been discarded.
That way it is possible to generate nice clean theoretical
statements--statements which are the last distillate of numerical
stupidity.

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That was immensely, incalculably most enjoyable...ha but seriously you make some pretty interesting posts man

Statisticons_win said:

I was reading The Scriptures...

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and herein lies your problem 

Statisticons_win said:

that is my dilemma.  I was alluding to the theory of word application in my previous post.  What is the extent of their power? Can, i elevate above the need to convince hundreds and thousands of people, and just beable bale to say bang, and create whole uni(verses).

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I don't believe in metaphysics cause the name suggests something beyond physics which I know to be impossible.

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